I have a bunch of neices and nephews who have basically worthless degrees. Back when I went to school, it was thought that a college education in a liberal arts subject taught people how to think for themselves. These days that has gone out the window completely.
Anyone who has had to design a vent/drainage system when adding bathrooms to an older structure with two or more levels finds out fairly quickly that plumbing is not as simple as it seems. Even the high pressure side can get complicated fairly quickly when trying to add to an existing system in an old house. I respect plumbers a lot more than I did before taking on a large project.
My son just graduated (BS in Business/Accounting) from a fairly leftist CA public college (they are all pretty leftist in CA), and told me that he took a lot of philosophy courses (minored in it) because that’s the one liberal arts field that hasn’t yet been ruined by the left.
They still read and study Plato, Aristotle, etc.
Most excellent.
I used to have a quote on my bulletin board:
“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.”
Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too? (1961). John W. Gardner